Although I expressed some disappointment last night toward Andrew Breitbart over his handling of the Shirley Sherrod video, I can certainly understand how the situation got like this.
By Breitbart’s own account on CNN this afternoon, he only received during the weekend the two videos that he posted on Monday, although he’s apparently known about them since March. So Breitbart gets these two videos, and now he has a choice to make: post them immediately, or wait for the fuller context, seeing as how there was no way Breitbart could not have known there was more to the story. And therein lies the catch-22 of journalism, particularly in a corporate environment. As a journalist, you want to make sure that you have all the facts, or else your reputation, and that of your employer, will suffer.| MORE ›
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